The doctors who sold their souls to support this guy?
Our glorious leader, Barak Hussein Obama [mmm...mmm...mmm], who is up on all the latest public health technology and protocols?
Just think too. These are the people that “understand it” the most, and they are STILL getting infected.
Because their jobs depend upon them NOT understanding it.
Oh my gosh. Is this real? 230 doctors have died from Ebola? They are in such desperate need of doctors and they’re dying. They need every one they can get.
Ping to null and void for the Ebola threads.
If viewed as an infectious disease crisis, one can imagine that it will be handled seriously and prudently.
If viewed as a political crisis...
I still wonder if there are other Ebola infected patients in America that Obama is trying to keep hidden until after the election.
See tagline.
A friend of the arrogant nurse in the NE said this:
“People need to stop judging her and just appreciate the good she’s done.”
This is so quintessentially “liberal” - don’t judge them based on behavior or the harmful consequences, just on “the good” they did or intended to do.
I was writing about that yesterday, they give us this explanation that it can only be contracted through bodily fluids then they tell us the reason the nurses in Dallas got it is because their necks were exposed. Well then how the hell did they get it? Did they pick up Thomas Duncans vomit then rub it on an open wound on their necks? These people are absolutely bullsh*tting us. They got the virus because they breathed it in! It’s a virus so small one billion of them can live in a centimeter of blood, and it can live up to 6 days outside the body, so do the math. Airborne or not? Of course it is! I mean they are going to tell us with a goddamn straight face that if an Ebola victim with blood in his mouth and nose sneezed right in my face none of these viruses are going to end up in my lungs and body? Of course they are!
What more could a health care worker possibly need for Ebola in 2014?<\sarcasm off>
(hat tip to: fivecatsandadog!)
Post to me or FReep mail to be on/off the Bring Out Your Dead ping list.
The purpose of the “Bring Out Your Dead” ping list (formerly the “Ebola” ping list) is very early warning of emerging pandemics, as such it has a high false positive rate.
So far the false positive rate is 100%.
At some point we may well have a high mortality pandemic, and likely as not the “Bring Out Your Dead” threads will miss the beginning entirely.
*sigh* Such is life, and death...
We used to call them experts, then they all died.
Like I have posted before it is difficult to get out of the gear without accidentally contaminating something. Our isolation techniques here are pretty forgiving as things like TB and such are really not that contagious. Folks get overconfident and sloppy.
I wonder if he misspoke. I've heard reports that said around fifteen doctors and many more health care workers. Maybe a total of around 230.
The world has far too many people willing to be martyred or commit self-immolation. This is nature’s way of culling their numbers and letting the arrogant know who is still in charge.
Of these 230 doctors how many were residents of the Liberia, Sierra Leone, or Guinea? How many were trained in western medical schools? How many worked in hospitals with the proper hazmat suits and equipment?
To be picky, it is nowhere near 230 doctors. The total in this outbreak is 244 dead health care workers, out of 450 infected health care workers (80 in Guinea; 228 in Liberia; 11 in Nigeria; 127 in Sierra Leone; one in Spain; and 3 in USA). The vast majority of those are nurses and medical technicians/assistants.
Studies have now shown the Ebola virus can live on surfaces for days so it could be possible to come in contact with the infection when you are not taking the precautions. The virus could also be mutating into an airborne plague.
A link to this thread has been posted on the Ebola Surveillance Thread